I love robots and so do my kids. Honestly, bring a robot out anywhere and everyone takes notice. If you don’t have a BEE BOT you should seriously consider buying one. They are sold on both Amazon and Lakeshore. The sky’s the limit with BEEBOTs. I always say robotics is not something new to teach. Bee Bots and robotics are simply a new way of teaching. Even your most reluctant student gets interested when you bring out the BEE BOT. My most challenging kids NEVER have behavioral issues during robotics. Hmm maybe we should spend some time thinking about that last sentence. No behavioral challenges when we use robots? Really? Really! The kids are practicing complex thinking, and problem solving. They are actively engaged, and did I mention no one has behavioral challenges. You had me at no behavioral challenges. What is a BEE BOT? A BeeBot is a small robot that looks just like a little bee. It takes very simple commands. Forward, back, turn right and turn left. That's it. Simple. But oh the possibilities are endless. There is something about using a robot that levels the playing field. The vast majority of my kids (so far, that means 100%) have never seen a robot up close and personal. Everyone has zero background experience. That is powerful for my kids who have challenging home lives. It’s usually the first time they start at the same place as my kids who come from homes that are filled with enriching activities. BEE BOTs are awesome. The kids have no idea they are learning to code. They just love that little guy. The lights, the sounds, the movement, are you kidding me who doesn’t love that! If you are looking for BEE BOT resources. I am adding to my list every week. These resources are designed to be cut out and put together to make a mat. Don't feel like cutting, taping, and laminating?? I have started to offer fully assembled mats sent directly to you.

Celebrate Christmas! Are you ready to use robotics and coding to make school even more fun this December?? This North Pole Express BeeBot mat is a perfect way to encourage critical thinking and increase student engagement this Christmas. This Bee Bot resource is designed to be used with a programm...

Are you ready to code with kids? This product is designed to be used with a programmable BEE BOT robot.Use robotics to teach literacy, BeeBots are the perfect addition to your winter literacy center. A fun activity to re-tell the Mitten Story and identify the characters from the story. You can use t...

Learn how using beeBots in your classroom can engage your youngest learners. Learn tips to get started with robots and coding in your class.

Learn how using beeBots in your classroom can engage your youngest learners. Learn tips to get started with robots and coding in your class.

Using Robotics in kindergarten and first grade can be a powerful tool to increase literacy and math skills. This video walks you through how I use BeeBots in my class and I show you how to put a mat together. Check out all my BeeBot resources

The bee-bot programmable robot teaches logic, the basics of programming and how a computer "thinks." Here's how my class did with it.

This resource is designed to be used with a programmable BEEBOT robot. It's the perfect addition to a math block. The product includes 62 picture squares. They should be cut out and made into a BEEBOT mat. The variety of squares lets you create a variety of mats. You can design your mat with just ...

With the changes in the National Curriculum for ICT there is a greater demand for easy to use programming tools for children. Here are 8 apps to help.

How to bring STEM to your English Lesson in the Early Years - introduce coding in kindergarten during play. FREE printable coding cards to download | you clever monkey

I love robots and so do my kids. Honestly, bring a robot out anywhere and everyone takes notice. If you don’t have a BEE BOT you should ser...

Use robotics to teach math skills and number fluency. This Tens and Ones beeBot math reinforces place value of numbers 11-20. Using robots with kids is a great way to teach math and infuse your classroom with STEM learning activities. Bee Bots are a perfect robot to use with elementary students. Your students will learn ... Read more

In this blog post from Modern Teaching Aids, we explore lesson ideas for using Bee-Bots while teaching Mathematics in the classroom.

Around and Around We Go! I love a good challenge and this week I gave my 2nd graders a new Dash challenge called Around and Around We Go! I placed an x inside our tape squares and a rectangle in the middle. Their first task was to code Dash around...

Use this BeeBot mat to teach the life cycle of the BEE. This BeeBot mat is designed to be used with a programmable BEE BOT robot. It's the perfect addition to a science center about the life cycle of the BEE. A perfect way to increase nonfiction and text-dependent vocabulary. This BEE-BOT mat includ...

I love robots, I mean I REALLY love robots. I love what it does for kids. How it amazes them, how it empowers them, how it reaches them like...

Are you ready to use robotics and coding to increase vocabulary using Sports? Bee Bot robots are a perfect way to encourage critical thinking and increase student engagement. Sports are a perfect topic to gain student interest. This resource is designed to be used with a programmable BEE BOT robot.

Use robotics to teach reading! This resource is designed to be used with a programmable BEE BOT robot. It's the perfect addition to your literacy centers. Get your students excited about learning the CH digraph by using your BeeBot to help teach them. Coding and robotics is a great way to utilize co...

BeeBot mats bring coding to your science centers. Use BeeBot mats to learn about Frogs, Owls, and Salmon. These BeeBot mats are designed to be used with a programmable BEE BOT robot. It's the perfect addition to a science center about life cycles. This aligns perfectly with Focus on K2. These BEE-BOT mats include 3 of my most popular life cycle BeeBot mats. In total there are 33 picture squares sized 15cm x 15cm. Each square should be cut out and made into a BEE-BOT mat. Each BeeBot mat comes with matching cards. Students will pick a card and then program the BeeBot to go to the matching picture on the Bee Bot mat. Please Note: This is a discounted, BUNDLED pack of three BEEBOT Mats. The pages included in this bundle are Identical to the ones in the individual units listed below: BeeBot Life cycle of the Frog BeeBot Life cycle of the Salmon BeeBot Life cycle of the Owl Please click the green star to follow my store and be the first to hear about more BeeBot products. Additional BEE-BOT Resources BeeBot Initial Sounds BeeBot CVC Words BeeBot Solar System BeeBot Weather Fully assembled BEE BOT mat - shipped to you

Teaching handwriting to kindergarten students can be challenging. Beginning writers need to not only identify letters, they need to be able to write letters automatically and with fluency. Teaching handwriting is so important in kindergarten because it's a strong predictor of quality writing in the upper grades. There is extensive research that states that explicit instruction of handwriting is required for kids to master the mechanics of writing. Reproducing letters quickly and effortlessly is a critical skill our kindergarten students need. When a student says a letter, learns to make the strokes of the letter, and attaches the sound to that letter, it helps them put all the critical pieces together, motor, phonological, and visual. Before we had technology, teachers had to accomplish this by sitting one on one with a child. But technology has changed all that! Using flipped lessons help provide the nesessary direct instruction. Writing letters correctly takes substantial repeated practice. Our students need to identify the letter by name and memorize the formation. Sure, some children come to us already able to write their name. But many students arrive with limited handwriting skills. We can use technology in our classroom to help those students become successful. Flipped lessons provide our young learners with videos that can do the teaching for us. Using flipped lessons for letter practice helps kids because they hear the repeated verbalizations while they are writing. You can literally "talk them through it". It's easy for our kindergarteners to use. All we need is a QR reader on our IPads ( free from the app store). Each lesson has a worksheet that has a QR code. The kids simply scan the QR code and they are brought directly to the video. The video provides that critical direct instruction. The worksheets can be used at school or they can be sent home for homework. Things to consider when teaching handwriting Should we teach upper or lowercase first? The uppercase letters are often easier because of the straight lines, but kindergarten students see primarily lowercase letters while reading. When using flipped lessons you can teach both at the same time. What order do we teach the letters? Believe it or not A is one of the hardest letters to master. There are diagonal lines which are so difficult for kids. You've seen that child's first attempt at the letter A. It really looks like an H with a bridge. Not to mention the lower case looks nothing like the upper case. So give the students a break and start with easier letters like T, and F. How easy is it to make a letter? Are there straight lines, curved lines both kinds of lines??? When practicing letter formation keep this in mind. I like to teach letters like c, and o, at the same time. We need our kindergarten students to master handwriting so they can focus on the higher level skills they'll need when reading and writing. Using flipped lessons has been a life saver for me. and my kids. Click here to grab a sample of how flipped lessons can transform how you teach handwriting. You can make your own flipped lesson with an app called Explain Everything. Don't have time? don't worry, I have it for you. If you haven't tried flipped lessons before you can try a sample here You can grab the full resource here

Use this caterpillar BeeBot mat to teach literacy with robotics and coding. This hungry caterpillar re-tell BeeBot mat is designed to be used with a programmable BEE BOT robot. Coding with a BeeBot mat is the perfect strategy to enhance your literacy center. A fun activity to re-tell the caterpillar...

Are you ready to use robotics and coding to teach literacy? Robotics is a fun way to increase student engagement and interest in reading. This resource is designed to be used with a programmable BEE BOT robot. It's the perfect addition to your literacy block. This BEE-BOT resource includes 5 resou...

For the past five years, I’ve been using the same “menu” format for Literacy Centers and have modified it as I’ve taught first, second, and third grade. Prior to that, I’d tried every system in the book…stations in the classroom, mobile tubs, wheels, rotated charts, assigned centers…all of which “worked” for the most part, BUT...

Get ready to code with kids? This product is designed to be used with a programmable BEE BOT robot. It's the perfect addition to a literacy or word work block. This BEE-BOT product includes 28 squares sized 15cm x 15cm. Each square has a letter of the alphabet and should be cut out and made into a...

Gingerbread Fun! Help your students celebrate Christmas with gingerbread and BeeBots. This resource is designed to be used with a programmable BEE BOT robot. It's the perfect addition to your December centers. Expand your gingerbread man unit to include coding.Get your students excited about learni...

Computer Studies teachers have known for a long time that there’s something very unique and engaging about assembling instructions to make a computing device do something. As simple a statement as…